SAMUEL MOYN is Assistant Professor of History, Columbia University. He is also the author of Origins of the Other: Emmanuel Levinas between Revelation and Ethics (2005).
Arresting scholarship . . . Moyn elucidates with compelling clarity
and coherence. Alive to historical ironies and penetratingly
written, this small, thoughtful book focusing on one moment in
French history illuminates very large themes, representing
intellectual history at its very best.-- "Choice"
In uncovering and analyzing the controversy for contemporary
readers, Moyn provides an entry for productive examination of some
of the compelling issues still animating Holocaust scholarship,
including how best to conceptualize Nazi criminality, the question
of Holocaust particularity, the issue of Jewish complicity and
resistance, the effect the Holocaust should have on framing Jewish
identity, and the uses and abuses of the Holocaust to further other
agendas. The book is timely, important and quite suggestive.--
"Jewish Book World"
Moyn's discussion is built on painstaking analysis of primary
sources, from private archives to Parisian Yiddish daily
newspapers, and manages to be at once exceptionally scrupulous and
wonderfully lucid . . . This is a superb book and, as an inspiring
model of committed scholarship, at a time when particularism and
universalism are again crucial domestic and international political
questions, essential reading.-- "French Studies"
Professor Samuel Moyn's book is a brilliant presentation of the
intellectual and emotional controversy caused by the publication of
Steiner's book."-- "Bridges"
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